grub in mbr needs bootable flag

[Herbert Gasiorowski]

On 09/21/2009 03:13 PM, Herbert Gasiorowski wrote:
> On 09/18/2009 12:09 AM, Mikkel wrote:
>> Herbert Gasiorowski wrote:
>>> Im using a kickstart installation with my own partitioning.
>>> I had no problems with Fedora 10 but now on f11 grub will not start
>>> without a bootable flag set on any partition.
>>>
>>> It nearly looks as if grub is installed in some partition but I am quite
>>> shure that the old MSDOS MBR is overwritten.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to check if grub is installed in the MBR?
>>> Or is it a bug in grub?
>>>
>>> (kickstart option is: "bootloader --location=mbr")
>>>
>> Dumb question - Is this a new install on a machine that had been
>> running Fedora 10, or is this another machine? The reason I ask is
>> that I have run into BIOSs that will not boot if one partition is
>> not marked bootable.
>>

Now I think it is not the bios: I did not have any Problems with Fedora 10
but all 3 machines - still running Fedora 10 - have the bootable flag at the
correct partition (the third): so probably anaconda or grub have set that in
F10 but no longer in F11 ...